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“Most Romans believed that their system of government was the finest political invention of the human mind. Change was inconceivable. Indeed, the constitution's various…

— Anthony Everitt

“These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man…

— Hannah Arendt

“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political…

— H.J. Haskell

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

— Edward Gibbon

I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace…

— James Joyce

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

— Beau Willimon

“Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition, the imperial…

— Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

— Goldwin Smith

“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But…

— Norman F. Cantor

“Rome's choice during her civil wars lay between a senatorial Republican form of government and a strong single rul although the monarchial English might…

— David Bevington

Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible…

— Lord Acton

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt